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    Dead Center: A Marine Sniper's Two-Year Odyssey in the Vietnam War by Ed Kugler

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    • Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
    • Pub. Date: May 1999
    • ISBN-13: 9780804118750
    • Sales Rank: 63,293
    • 370pp
     
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    Synopsis

    WHEN YOU'RE IN THE DEATH BUSINESS, EACH DAWN COULD BE YOUR LAST.
    Raw, straightforward, and powerful, Ed Kugler's account of his two years as a Marine scout-sniper in Vietnam vividly captures his experiences there--the good, the bad, and the ugly. After enlisting in the Marines at seventeen, then being wounded in Santo Domingo during the Dominican crisis, Kugler arrived in Vietnam in early 1966.
    As a new sniper with the 4th Marines, Kugler picked up bush skills while attached to 3d Force Recon Company, and then joined the grunts. To take advantage of that experience, he formed the Rogues, a five-sniper team that hunted in the Co Bi-Than Tan Valley for VC and NVA. His descriptions of long, tense waits, sudden deadly action, and NVA countersniper ambushes are fascinating.
    In DEAD CENTER, Kugler demonstrates the importance to a sniper of patience, marksmanship, bush skills, and guts--while underscoring exactly what a country demands of its youth when it sends them to war.

    Biography

    A former Marine scout-sniper, Ed Kugler served two tours in Vietnam as a sniper and sergeant with the 4th Marines in I Corps. He is the recipient of two Purple Hearts and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry. He is the author of the inspirational self-help booklet A Dozen Things I Learned About Life as a Marine Sniper in Vietnam. Following his four-year hitch in the Marine Corps, Ed distinguished himself in the corporate world. He spent ten years in his family's trucking business before working sixteen years in management with PepsiCo's Frito-Lay and Pepsi-Cola divisions. He was then Vice President, Worldwide Logistics, for Compaq Computer Corporation and vice president of Telxon Corporation. Today Ed is a business and change management consultant. He lives with his wife of thirty years and their family in Spring, Texas.

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    Average Rating: Customer Rating for this product is 3.5 out of 5
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    Customer Rating for this product is 4 out of 5 Small Town Boy in a Soldiers Shoes
    A reviewer, A reviewer, 01/05/2007

    This is a book following a young man by the name of Ed Kugler. He joined the Marines in the mid 1960s to get out of his boring little town. His parents didn’t support him about going into the military. After training he was involved in the Dominican crisis and eventually Vietnam. He volunteered to go to Vietnam and when he got to Vietnam he volunteered to become a Marine scout sniper. The entire time he was in Vietnam every letter he got from his parents had something in it saying that he made a mistake going to Vietnam. He trained in Vietnam for a while to become a scout sniper. When he was finished him and his partner joined a recon team. Read the book and experience the adventures, and tragedies that Kug experiences in Vietnam. There were a lot of good things and just a few bad things in the book Dead center Just a few of the good things were he described his situations very well, and he explained his feelings about tragedies and very good things that happened to him. He also described the men in his unit so good d that you could picture them and hear how they talked. Of the few problems in this book the only one that bothered me was one page he’d be talking about one day the next page he’d be talking about a day three days later. He only did this a few times, and I understand he has to do it because he cant talk about every day eh was in Vietnam it would be too big of a book. Dead center is not part and a series and has no sequels, and is a book that reminds me of the movie We Were Soldiers. A lot of kind of people would like this book, because there are sad, funny, and historical parts in this book. The people that would enjoy this most though would be someone who just likes a great adventure.

    Customer Rating for this product is 1 out of 5 A must NOT read.....
    PMac, A reviewer, 01/28/2006

    I've read countless books on Vietnam and wars in general. I served almost 15 years in the military myself and I find this book to a total let down. He stated that this would be the best nam book I would ever read, not even close. If you want to read a good book about snipers, real snipers that went out by themselves or with a spotter then read 'Marine Sniper, 93 Comfirmed Kills'. That book is a page turner about a man with some serious shooting and concelment skill.

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